Patents Examined by T. A. Dang
  • Patent number: 11765936
    Abstract: A display device according to an embodiment includes: a first conductive layer that is disposed on a substrate; a transistor that is disposed on the substrate; and a light emitting element that is electrically connected to the transistor, wherein the transistor includes a semiconductor layer that at least partially overlaps the first conductive layer and is disposed on the first conductive layer, and a gate electrode that is disposed on the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region that does not overlap the first conductive layer, a third region that overlaps the first conductive layer, and a second region that is disposed between the first region and the third region and traverses an edge of the first conductive layer. The first width of the semiconductor layer in the first region is smaller than a second width of the semiconductor layer in the second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sang Hyung Lim, Kyu Min Kim, Hui-Won Yang, Dong Ha Lee
  • Patent number: 11759366
    Abstract: A device (1) for cleaning the external auditory canal, which device (1) includes a guide sleeve (30), with a proximal outlet portion (31) for partial insertion into the auditory canal, and an instrumentation rod (10) that can be guided axially through the guide sleeve (30). At a proximal end region, the instrumentation rod (10) has a cleaner (20) with at least one circumferentially extending cleaning element (21) which is elastically expandable in a radial direction. An internal cross section of the proximal outlet portion (31) is smaller than an external cross section of the cleaning element (21) in a radially expanded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Guy Petignat
    Inventor: Guy Petignat
  • Patent number: 11759231
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system comprising a cannula assembly configured for rotational fractional resection (RFR). The cannula assembly includes at least one cannula configured for rotational operation and enclosed in a depth guide configured to control an insertion depth of the at least one cannula. The depth guide includes a vacuum chamber configured to maintain vacuum to evacuate resected tissue generated by the RFR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SRGI HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Knowlton
  • Patent number: 11764129
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) in which a shield structure blocks the migration of charge to a semiconductor device from proximate a through substrate via (TSV). In some embodiments, the IC comprises a substrate, an interconnect structure, the semiconductor device, the TSV, and the shield structure. The interconnect structure is on a frontside of the substrate and comprises a wire. The semiconductor device is on the frontside of the substrate, between the substrate and the interconnect structure. The TSV extends completely through the substrate, from a backside of the substrate to the wire, and comprises metal. The shield structure comprises a PN junction extending completely through the substrate and directly between the semiconductor device and the TSV.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Ltd.
    Inventors: Min-Feng Kao, Dun-Nian Yaung, Hsing-Chih Lin, Jen-Cheng Liu, Wei-Tao Tsai
  • Patent number: 11764249
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide an image sensor pixel comprising a junction field effect transistor (JFET) and a floating diffusion configured to act as the gate of the JFET. An image sensor may comprise a plurality of pixels, at least one pixel comprising floating diffusion region formed in a semiconductor substrate, a transfer gate configured to selectively cause transfer of photocharge stored in the pixel to the floating diffusion, and a JFET having (i) a source and a drain coupled by a channel region, and (ii) a gate comprising the floating diffusion region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE
    Inventors: Jiaju Ma, Leo Anzagira, Eric R. Fossum
  • Patent number: 11764180
    Abstract: A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a connection terminal, including a base pillar, on the semiconductor substrate. An insulation layer is formed on the semiconductor substrate, the insulation layer including an opening in the insulation layer through which the base pillar extends, wherein a side wall of the insulation layer defining the opening includes a horizontal step at a level that is lower than an uppermost portion of the base pillar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ju-Ik Lee, Dong-Wan Kim, Seokho Shin, Jung-Hoon Han, Sang-Oh Park
  • Patent number: 11751904
    Abstract: Embodiments include a system comprising a carrier and a cannula assembly. The carrier includes a proximal end and a distal end, and the proximal end is configured to removeably couple to a remote console. The cannula assembly, which is configured to removeably couple to the distal end of the carrier, is configured for rotational fractional resection (RFR) and includes at least one cannula rotatably coupled to the carrier and enclosed in a depth guide configured to control an insertion depth of the at least one cannula. The depth guide includes a vacuum chamber configured to form vacuum to evacuate resected tissue generated by the RFR.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SRGI HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Knowlton
  • Patent number: 11751903
    Abstract: Embodiments include a method comprising determining histological factors at a target site of a subject, and determining parameters of a fractional resection based on the histological factors. The parameters include dimensionality of a fractional field, orientation of the fractional field, resection depth, and a vector of directed closure. The method includes configuring a cannula assembly for the fractional resection that includes a procedure to generate a fractional field at the target site by fractionally resecting tissue according to the parameters. The fractional resection includes applying a cannula array of the cannula assembly to the target site, and rotating at least one cannula of the cannula array to circumferentially incise and remove a plurality of skin plugs in the fractional field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: SRGI HOLDINGS, LLC
    Inventor: Edward Knowlton
  • Patent number: 11751956
    Abstract: A device for insertion of a medical tool held in an end effector, the device comprising moveable platforms providing motion in two generally orthogonal directions, and two piston mechanisms operating within cylinders, coupled to the moveable platforms, and being attached at their distal end to the end effector by means of a common joint. The pistons may be linear actuators. The end effector is manipulated by driving mechanisms propelling the pistons linearly. The proximal ends of the cylinders may be coupled to a common shaft. The axes of the cylinders and the pistons, the line connecting the pistons axes through the common joint and the axis of the cylinders' common shaft may all be located substantially in a single plane. Coordinated motion of the moveable platforms and the piston mechanisms enables the maintenance of a virtual remote center of motion of the medical tool as its orientation changes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: XACT ROBOTICS LTD.
    Inventors: Ofer Arnold, Eduard Borodets
  • Patent number: 11758744
    Abstract: An organic device comprising first and second conductive line, an insulator arranged above the first and second conductive lines, a first electrode arranged above the insulator, an organic layer arranged above the first electrode, a second electrode arranged above the organic layer, a first via including a first conductor connecting the first conductive line and the first electrode, and a second via including a second conductor connecting the second conductive line and the second electrode, is provided. An upper portion of the first via is filled with the first conductor. An upper portion of the second via includes a region which is not filled with the second conductor and covered by the second conductor. An inner wall of the second conductor along the second via includes a region without the organic layer in contact with the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Tetsuo Takahashi, Norifumi Kajimoto
  • Patent number: 11749615
    Abstract: A display device includes: a substrate including a first component area in which a first transmission portion is arranged, a second component area that surrounds the first component area and in which a second transmission portion is arranged, and a main display area surrounding at least a portion of the second component area; an insulating layer having a first transmission hole corresponding to the first transmission portion and a second transmission hole corresponding to the second transmission portion, the first transmission hole and the second transmission hole exposing an upper surface of the substrate; a plurality of display elements arranged on the insulating layer and corresponding to the first component area, the second component area, and the main display area; and an alignment pattern arranged on the substrate and overlapping the second transmission hole and configured to align a component with the second component area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Seungchan Lee, Sungjin Hong, Sanghee Jang, Sunhee Lee
  • Patent number: 11751446
    Abstract: The display device includes a pixel circuit provided corresponding to a data line and a scanning line, the pixel circuit includes first to fourth transistors and a display element, and the first transistor supplies a current in accordance with a voltage between a gate node and a source node to the display element via the fourth transistor, the second transistor is disposed between the data line and the gate node of the first transistor and is turned on and off in accordance with a potential of the scanning line, the third transistor is disposed between the data line and a drain node of the first transistor, and the fourth transistor is disposed between the drain node of the first transistor and the display element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takumi Kodama, Takeshi Koshihara
  • Patent number: 11737899
    Abstract: Devices and methods for treating obesity are provided. More particularly, intragastric devices and methods of fabricating, deploying, inflating, monitoring, and retrieving the same are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: RESHAPE LIFESCIENCES INC.
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Paul D. Faucher, Neil R. Drake, Andrew P. Rasdal, Matthew S. Lake, Dubravka Markovic, Amy D. L. VandenBerg, Antonio C. Llevares, Josefina Nider
  • Patent number: 11737746
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a gripping instrument that includes a first arm and a second arm disposed opposite the first arm. The first arm and the second arm are joined at a joint, where an end of the first arm opposite the joint is configured to move towards an end of the second arm opposite the joint in a gripping direction. The apparatus further includes a blade disposed on the first arm, where the blade is oriented at an angle that is non-parallel to the gripping direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Inventor: Chris Geiger
  • Patent number: 11737776
    Abstract: A system to treat a patient comprises a user interface that allows a physician to view an image of tissue to be treated in order to develop a treatment plan to resect tissue with a predefined removal profile. The image may comprise a plurality of images, and the planned treatment is shown on the images. The treatment probe may comprise an anchor, and the image shown on the screen may have a reference image marker shown on the screen corresponding to the anchor. The planned tissue removal profile can be displayed and scaled to the image of the target tissue of an organ such as the prostate, and the physician can adjust the treatment profile based on the scaled images to provide a treatment profile in three dimensions. The images shown on the display may comprise segmented images of the patient with treatment plan overlaid on the images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: PROCEPT BioRobotics Corporation
    Inventors: Nikolai Aljuri, Surag Mantri, Luis Baez, George Surjan, Michael W. Sasnett, Jonathan Foote
  • Patent number: 11744101
    Abstract: An opto-electronic device having a plurality of layers, comprising a nucleation-inhibiting coating (NIC) disposed on a first layer surface in a first portion of a lateral aspect thereof. In the first portion, the device comprises a first electrode, a second electrode and a semiconducting layer between them. The second electrode lies between the NIC and the semiconducting layer in the first portion. In the second portion, a conductive coating is disposed on a second layer surface. The first portion is substantially devoid of the conductive coating. The conductive coating is electrically coupled to the second electrode and to a third electrode in a sheltered region of a partition in the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: OTI Lumionics Inc.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wang, Yi-Lu Chang, Qi Wang
  • Patent number: 11744071
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array; a first insulating layer; and a passivation film. The memory cell array includes first interconnect layers and a first memory pillar. The first interconnect layers extend in a first direction substantially parallel to a semiconductor substrate. The first memory pillar passes through the first interconnect layers and extends in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the semiconductor substrate. The first insulating layer is provided above the memory cell array. The passivation film is provided on the first insulating layer, and includes a protrusion at least above the memory cell array and between the passivation film and the first insulating layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Kioxia Corporation
    Inventors: Gin Suzuki, Hiroki Yamashita, Yuichiro Fujiyama, Takuji Ohashi
  • Patent number: 11744127
    Abstract: A display device includes a substrate including a pixel region and a peripheral region. A plurality of pixels is disposed in the pixel region of the substrate. Each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting element. Data lines and scan lines are connected to each of the plurality of pixels. A power line is configured to supply power to the plurality of pixels. The power line includes a plurality of first conductive lines and a plurality of second conductive lines intersecting the plurality of first conductive lines. The plurality of second conductive lines is arranged in a region between adjacent light emitting elements of the plurality of pixels. At least some of the plurality of second conductive lines extend in a direction oblique to a direction of extension of the data lines or the scan lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO, LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Wan Kim, Byung Sun Kim, Jae Yong Lee, Chung Yi, Hyung Jun Park, Su Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11744112
    Abstract: The present application provides a display substrate and a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. In the display substrate, each sub-pixel includes: a power signal line; sub-pixel driver circuits and a shielding pattern. The sub-pixel driver circuit includes a driver transistor and a compensation transistor of double-gate structure. The shielding pattern is electrically coupled with the power signal line in the sub-pixel which is adjacent the shielding pattern in a second direction. There is an overlap area between an orthographic projection of the shielding pattern onto the base substrate and an orthographic projection of the conductor pattern onto the base substrate; the second direction intersects the first direction. The sub-pixels include multiple first sub-pixels and multiple second sub-pixels; the overlap area in the first sub-pixel is greater than the overlap area in the second sub-pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignees: CHENGDU BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Huijuan Yang, Xiaofeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11730949
    Abstract: A neuromodulation therapy is delivered via at least one electrode implanted subcutaneously and superficially to a fascia layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. In one example, an implantable medical device is deployed along a superficial surface of a deep fascia tissue layer superficial to a nerve of a patient. Electrical stimulation energy is delivered to the nerve through the deep fascia tissue layer via implantable medical device electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Erik R. Scott, John E. Kast, Xuan K. Wei, Todd V. Smith, Joel A. Anderson, Forrest C. M. Pape, Duane L. Bourget, Timothy J. Denison, David A. Dinsmoor, Randy S. Roles, Stephen J. Roddy